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amarka

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    Comment #49058417

    Maybe if you think really hard you’ll come up with other (more useful) examples.

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    Comment #49053599

    “ one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable” that’s my question, what about the other ways that have been automated away. Is there something special about mathem…

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    Comment #49052942

    Apologies is this is a simpleton question, but how does this differ than most of the mechanical work previously done by hand, but is now automated?

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    Comment #49022116

    "the slowness is a feature" - I grew up in eastern block of Europe in the 80-90s, this type of sentiment has a real "the party loves you, this is for your own good" vibe.

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    Comment #47977209

    Every copy is better than the original, true story.

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    Comment #47977112

    Ohh sure, its users use it for all sorts of things https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musks-xai-s...

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    Comment #46556797

    Or in my context: > Give a person code, and you help them for a day. Teach them to code, and you frustrate them for a lifetime.

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    Comment #46556687

    While the author’s (banker and a data scientist) experience is clearly valuable, it is unclear whether it alone is sufficient to support the broader claims made. Engineering conclu…

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    Comment #44455508

    Let me fill you in on a secret: one of the reasons behind US’s dominance is that even though “there are other countries” that could do the hard science, the US is one of the only o…

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    Comment #44455440

    From the article: “ The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.…

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    Comment #42739809

    Not sure if this is accurate. It seems they’re refusing to take the risk.

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    Comment #42618411

    They are indeed some of the best floors to roll on.

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    Comment #42615473

    I can’t believe Justin Trudeau would lowball your friend like that.

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    Comment #42069970

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40289209

    I get about 21 hours from mine, it's running Windows but powered off.

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    Comment #34836904

    Ahh yes the "we'll rewrite this code from scratch" argument; known well to work every time!

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    Comment #31186813

    Not sure if the last sentence is in jest or not, but here's a list of crashes for just one of their plane models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

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    Comment #24793631

    The road to hell is littered with "free ice cream this way =>" signs.

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    Comment #24545739

    Indeed it's totally worthless data, like what are you going to do, dissect people into groups that you could heavily target and try to sell them gizmos or swing an election? Pfft, …

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    Comment #24238654

    What's worse is that I heard rumors they don't allow slave labor either. Labor laws, ugh, they're the worst.

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    Comment #19636039

    Waymo can do inner city driving better than Tesla and GM can do highway driving better than Tesla. I love the competition amongst the different platforms, as a consumer it's a win …

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    Comment #19515045

    Why should I trust Denise Minger over Colin Campbell? I read Capbell's China Study and I'm definitely interested in counter points to his findings, but it seems like Minger is a fo…

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    Comment #18222490

    My understanding is that the majority of his personal net worth is from Tesla (+Solar City) and SpaceX. Would that limit his ability to personally fund Tesla?

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